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J. G. GOLDTHWAITE. CONDENSER FOR COTTON ems.

No. 462,404. Patented Nov. 3, 1891.

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JOSEPH G. GOLDTHIVAITE, OF GALVESTON, TEXAS, ASSIGN OR TO THE REM- BERT ROLLER COMPRESS COMPANY, OF TEXAS.

CONDENSER FOR COTTON-GINS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 462,404, dated November 3, 1891. Application filed March 12, 1891. Serial No. 384,746. (No model.)

To whom it may concern: of the fiber-laden current, and also to expose Be it known that I, JOSEPH G. GOLD- a greater area of the condenser-surfaces for THWAITE, of Galveston, in the county of Galthe lodgment of the cotton thereon.

veston and State of Texas, have invented cer- In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is 5 tain Improvements in Condensers for Oottonan elevation of the leading parts of a com- Gins, of which the following is a specification. pressing and baling plant with my improve- In Letters Patent of the United States No. ments incorporated therein. Fig. 2 is a 1011- 441,022, granted November 18,1800, to Henry gitudinal vertical section through the trunk Relnbert, is described a method of compresscondenser, and adjacent parts. Fig. 3 is a 10 ing and baling cotton, consistingin delivering horizontal section on the line 3 3 cl Fi s. 1 the lint-cotton from the gin or gins directly and 2. Fig. 4 is a section on the line 4: to a condenser, by which it is formed into a Referring to the drawings, A and A rep soft bat or sheet and delivered between rolls, sent two ordinary cotton-gins of an yapproved 6 by which it is in turn subjected to an extreme form, each containing, as usual and as shown 1 compression to suppress its expansive tendin the drawings, therotary-brush cvlinder by ency and then delivered to a lapping mechwhich the lint is delivered and a stron dutanism, which acts to build up a bale from the ward blast produced, arranged to delivzr th compressed sheet. In orderthatt-hebale thus lint-cotton through short flues a a into the built up of a great number of thin laminae side of a common trunk or conductor B, pref- 20 may be of uniform thickness, and that the erably of rectangular form in cross-section fiber passing between the rolls may receive which extends to and delivers the cotton at a uniform and adequate pressure without danits end in a horizontal direction upon the surger of being crushed, it is necessary that the faces of the two pervious condensing-cylinfiber shall be fed to and distributed upon the ders C C, mounted one above the otherin an 2 condenser-surfaces with uniformity. In pracinclosing case or chamber D, having side pa tice I have found that itis extremely difficult sages (Z, through which the interior spaces of to secure this result. The practice has been the cylinders communicate with an uprisin to deliver the lint from a gin through a trunk dust-flue d, and a descendingchamber (Z t8 or flue to the condenser, as shown in the patreceive the heavier impurities.

o ent above cited and the companion patent E E are two smooth strongly-s11pported. to Rembert, No. 446,888, dated February 24, rollers, to and between which the cotton from 1891; but as the parts have been heretofore the condenser is guided that it mav be comeoustructed and arranged the fiber was repressed to a degree suitable for-hal ing. ceived unevenly by the condenser, and the The rotary brushes a of the gins produce 3 5 bat or sheet passing to the rolls consequently as usual, a strong outward blast of air, which varied in thickness. My presentinvention is passes through the trunk and the pervious designed to overcome this difficulty and sesurface of the condenser-cylinders to their cure the delivery of the cotton to the coninteriors, whence it escapes at the end paso denser at a constantrate and evenly from one sages to the dust-ii ues. This air-current car- 0 side to the other. To this endIcombine with ries with it in suspension the loose 'inned one or moreginsatrunk, into which the fiber is fiber or lint, which is deposited on tile surdischarged and through which it is carried by faces of the cylinders and by their revolution the air-blast produced by the gin-brushes to in the direction indicated bv the arrows 5 the condenser-cylinders. The mouth or deformed into and delivered between them as a 5 livery end of this trunk, as it closely aploose light coherent bat orsheet, which passes preaches the condenser in such form as to deit to the compressing-rolls. liver the fiber in a horizontal or substantially In order to secure the uniform delivery of horizontal direction, is enlarged vertically by the fiber to tho condenser-cylinders,I curve rounding its top and bottom walls upward the top wall of the trunk upward immedi- 50 and downward, respectively. The result of ately in advance of the cylindersfas shown the enlargement in this manner is to increase at a and in like manner curve the bottom the sectional area and diminish the velocity wall downward, as shown at a. The top and bottom walls terminate, as shown, substantially on a level with the axes of the respective cylinders, so that their surfaces are equally exposed to the advancing fiber. In practice I have found that this vertical enlargement of the mouth of the trunk by upward and downward curves is of great advantage in that it secures a uniformity of distribution and a freedom from clogging and other interruptions not attainable to the same extent by any other means of which I am aware.

I find it desirable to give the trunk opposite the end of each gin an increasing area longitudinally toward the condenser, or, in other words, from one side of thegin to the other, as shown in Fig. 2. This compensates for the increasing volume of air, maintains a uniform current, and insures the carrying forward of the fiber in a proper manner.

The best results as regards the continuity and regularity of the current and the uniformity of the distribution of the fibcr on the cylinders are attained when the trunk is made, as shown, of gradually-increasing depth from its beginning to a point beyond the last gin, and carried from the last gin upward to the condenser with a reverse curvature, as shown at b b. I also find it desirable to curve the fines or conductors throughwhich the gins deliver into the main trunk in the direction of the condenser, or, in other words, in the direction in which the fiber is to be conveyed, as plainly shown in Fig. 3. The existence of sudden constrictions 0r angular surfaces, which will produce reactionary currents and eddies and a consequentlodgment of the fiber, is to be particularly avoided.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. In combination with acotton-gin and a condenser having two pervio'us cylinders, one above the other, an intermediate trunk, through which the gin delivers the lint-cotton to the condenser, said trunk having its delivery end enlarged by an upward and'down ward curvature of its top and bottom walls, substantially as described, and as distinguished from an angular enlargement.

2. In combination with a cotton-gin and a condenser at a higher level, an intermediate trunk extending horizontally from the gin, then curved upward. and finally expanded vertically in curved lines at its delivery-end, substantially as and for the purposes described. V

3. In combination with a gin, a trunk for conducting the lint-cotton therefrom, pervious condensing-cylinders at the end of the trunk, and an inclosing case having openings for the delivery of the air from the interior of the cylinders at both ends, whereby the distribu tion of the fiber on the two ends of the cylinders is equalized.

4:. In combination with cotton-gins, a flue arranged to receive into its side the lint-carrying blasts from the gins, said flue having its portions opposite the gins tapered and widened vertically in the direction of its length, whereby the current in the fine is given a substantially constant velocity and adapted to maintain a uniform distribution of the moving fiber.

In testimony whereof I hereunto set my hand, this 6th day of March, 1891, in the presence of two attesting witnesses.

JOSEPH G. GOLDTHIVAITE.

VV1tnesses:

O. S. DRURY, IV. R. KENNEDY. 

